| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Adapter | The part of the shim specific to one framework. See Entrypoints. |
| Agent | One deployable agent from one folder of one repository, with one endpoint. ID agt_.... See How Onecortex works. |
agent.yml | The one file you add: runtime, entrypoint, dependencies. See the reference. |
| API key | A credential that can invoke agents and nothing else. Prefix oc_live_. See API keys. |
| Automatic deploy | A build started by a push to the agent’s branch. See Automatic deploys. |
| Build | One attempt to turn a commit into an image, in nine stages. ID bld_.... See Builds. |
| Deployment | Putting a version live: a release, or a rollback. See Versions and rollback. |
| Entrypoint | The object in your code that is the agent, named in agent.yml. See Entrypoints. |
| Event | One thing a run reports: text, a tool call, a tool result, a step, or its end. See Streaming and events. |
| Gateway | What answers the invoke endpoint: checks the key, applies limits, calls your agent, streams the events. |
| Organization | Your team’s account, and the boundary of everything in it. ID org_.... See Organizations. |
| Params | The fields a caller sends beyond prompt, handed to your agent unchanged. See the invoke API. |
| Rollback | Putting an older version live again, with no build. See Versions and rollback. |
| Runtime | The isolated, managed environment your agent runs in. |
| Session | A conversation key: calls with the same one reach the same running instance. See Sessions. |
| Shim | The code Onecortex adds to your image to find your agent and turn what it does into events. |
| Smoke test | The check every image passes before it can become a version: it starts, and answers one call. See Builds. |
| Step | A named stage of a run, such as a LangGraph node. See Streaming and events. |
| Surface | The way a call arrived. Today, always invoke. |
| Version | An image that built and passed its smoke test, numbered per agent. ID ver_.... See Versions and rollback. |
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Glossary
What each word in Onecortex means, in one line, with a link to the page that explains it.
Last modified on September 28, 2026